For Research Students- 14 Seminal Works on Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary area of study that combines a multitude of theories, methods, and analytical procedures. Approaches to discourses analysis vary according to ones analytical focus and based on the objective of one’s research. Some approaches tend to pay meticulous attention to the linguistic structure of text and talk (e.g., see Fairclough works) and others focus more on the external relations of text including the socio-cultural, political and cognitive aspect of discourse (e.g, Van Dijk, Wodak). However, the common thread weaving together all of these various discourse analytic approaches is their departure from discourse, that is, language in use. No matter what their focus is, language in use always figures as an important component in doing discourse analysis.

 The purpose of my post today is to share with you some excellent books to get you grounded within the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of discourse analysis. These are especially helpful for research students doing or planning to carry out research projects using discourse analysis. Anyone else interested in understanding the complex internal and external relations of language and social reality will find these resources helpful. The list also features a few books on a particular tradition within discourse studies knows as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (we ll do a separe post on CDA in the near future) . We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback.

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